I get that it's an indie project with a huge scope, but man the production values here are worse than most budget titles I picked up for a couple of bucks from bargain bins back in the early 2000s. People rag on Serious Sam 4 for having enormous open locations, but at least there the locations actually look real and are laid out in organic ways. This game's level design is one of the worst I've ever seen. Rooms and objects seem to be thrown in together randomly without any regard to the player's movements or an attempt to guide the player.

On top of that, the graphics are just ass-ugly. If you're gonna have low-res textures, don't blur them and then throw bump-mapping on top. Everything looks like a crumpled sandwich. And then there's the modern lighting effects that just clash violently with the "retro" low-poly graphics. Just awful toxic colors as well that strain your eyes.

I think the game is trying to be a Deus Ex, except with none of the depth of political and social commentary, but anime girls thrown into there instead. It's all a bunch of quirkiness and fetishization of overused concepts. In this case you spawn into some kinda future Soviet Union because why make cyberpunk relevant, right? Not like the genre's entire point is to highlight the problems that are arising presently in the late-capitalist society and are sure to get exacerbated in the future.

Then again, idk, that was my first impression. I didn't get far in the game or even to the first combat scenario because I kept getting stuck in endless stairways because the game has no fucking idea of how to lay out a level or even create functional ladder-climbing mechanics.

It's just a shitshow.